Fire pot and sediment separator for hot-water stoves



Aug. 4, 192s.

S. V. REEVES FIRE POT AND sEDIuENT SEPARATOR Fon HOT WATER sTo VES Filed March 15, 1923 @Zwan/wr ATTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL V. REEVES, OF HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

FIRE POT AND SEDIMENT SEPARAT'OR FOR HOT-WATER STOVES.

Application led March 15, 1923i. Serial No. 625,175.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL V. REEvEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Iaddonfield, in the county `of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Fire Pot and Sediment Sepa-V rator for Hot-Tater Stoves, of lwhich the following is a specification. t

Broadly considered my invention comprehends certain novel features which are those particularly hereinafter described and claimed,`and which among others, embrace the following The construction of a preheating chamber in such collocation with a main chamber or water jacket an-d a separating chamber that in the process of separating the sediment from both the cold water and the hot water, the cold water will Venter the preheating chamber, circulate completely around it almost to the point of its entry, then diverge from it outwardly and horizontally into an exterior or separating chamber then pass upwardly and inwardly into the lower part of the main heating chamber and then upwardly to a discharge at itstop after completely circulating around and becoming heated within said main chamber.

A further feature is that by reason of its being located at the lowest. point of the fire chamber the preheating, chamber will possess the advantage of receiving the heat lcontained in and through the .products Ofcombustion, in addition to the heat incident to a fresh fire or from the combustion of fuel that is the first to be consumed and the lirst to be displaced by'ashes.

A further feature is that the passage or flow of the heated water from the preheating chamber outwardly into the exterior or separating chamber to'which, although itself a sediment receptacle, may be attached an exterior lower sediment receptacle at a point outside ofthe line of the main waterway or circulating chambers, where the water when agitated b'y excessive heat will have theVIK least effect upon the deposit of sediment which has been conveyed through the circulation of the water to said lower receptacle.

A further feature isthe ready separation of mineral matter and iron rust from the water which the arrangement of the several chambers makes possible,-the gravitation of the sediment being thereby more readily attained than would be possible if it came in the direct line with the water when agitated by thermo-pressure. A still further feature is such a collocation of the several chambers that through the medium of an additional-outlet between the preheating chamber and the main heating chamber, the water after making a complete circuit of the preheating chamber can pass directly upward into the main heating chamber,-such passage being supplementary of the passage of the water 'into and through the separating. chamber in its passage to the main heating chamber.

A special advantage of my invention resides in the fact that because the preheating chamberoccupies the same space and place usual for an ash ring, the utilization of every particle of heat for raising the temperature of water before it enters the main heating chamber is made possible.

Other advantages inhering in my construction will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings a form of it which is at present preferred by me, since in` Vpractice it will give satisfactory and reliable results.

It is to be understood, however, that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can'be variously arranged and organizedV and that my. invention is not, therefore, limited to the precise arrangement and organization of thesevinstrumentalities as herein shown and described.

In the drawings, FigureV l represents a side elevation of a fire pot and sediment separator, embodying my invention.

Figure 2 represents a sectional elevation on the lineQ-Q of'Figure 1Q Figure 3 represents a plan on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.A

Figui-e4 represents a plan on the line 4;-/1 of Figure 2, and Figure 5 represents a fragmentary-sectional detail of the preheating chamber, the exterior or separating chamber, the main heating chamber, and the fire chamber.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, l designates a preferably cylindric fire chamber or tire pot of any usual character and assumed to be super posed upon a grate.

Encompassing this tire chamber are two water chambers, the lower of which is a preheating chamber 2, and the upper a main heating chamber 3. 1

These two chambers are separated near the basal portion of the main heating chamber and at` the upper' portion of the preheating" portion 9 of the separating chamber '6, an

oriiice 10 through an outward extension of the horizontal partition L leads from the sediment chamber 9 into the lowerexterior portion of the separating chamber 6, and an inlet 11-leads through the partition wall 7 from said lower portion oi said separating chamber 6 into the main heating chamber S.

Thus, further, an orifice 17 leads directly from the preheating chamber into the main heating chamber.

An outlet pipe 12, see Figure 5, leads through the bottom of the sediment chamber 9 of the separating chamber 6 to which may, if desired, be attached a sediment trap 13, see the dotted lines inFigure 1. If desired, however, the sediment chamber may be sealed by a plug 14, see Figures 1 and 2.

15 is a cold water inlet rinto the preheating chamber 2 and 16 a hot water outlet from the upper portion of the main heating chamber 3 through pipes to a storage tanlnfboiler orany other receiving device.

My invention is adapted to be employed with any desired or conventional type of water jacket or boilers regardless of shape or design and may be construct-ed with a sediment separator as an elemental part ot the construction irrespective of the intended use of the hot water. Vhile the sedimentchamber, as illustrated, is an integral part of the construction, in some cases this can be dispensed with and simply the preheating chamber of the lower water jacket either as an integral part of the water jacketed fire pot or as a separate water ringtherefrom which communicates in any desired manner with respect to the Water jacket of the main re pot. Y

Special attention is directed to the fact that in the construction, as shown, the sediment receiving or separator chamber is eX- 14 or by opening the cock in the sediment 70 receiving trap 13.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new andv useful fire pot and sediment separator for hot wat-er stoves which embodies the features oit advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and theV above description, and while I have, in the presentV instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that this embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. j

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class described, which comprises in integral assemblage a tire chamber, a pre-heating chamber encompassing the lower part of the tire chamber, a main heating chamber arranged above said pre-heating chamber and encompassing the upper part of said iire chamber, a horizontal partition between the pre-heating chamber and the mainvheating chamber, there being a vertically disposed orifice connecting said chambers, a partition disposed vertically throughout both said pre-heating chamber, and said .main heating chamber to completely and transversely obstruct said chambers, i a verticallydisposed rectangularcasing ex traneous to said pre-heating chamber and said main heating chamberv and separated therefromby a partition wall which wall is slightly inclined, said casing `forming a separating chamber and a sediment chamber, an outlet from the pre-heating chamber to the sediment chamber, an inlet from the separating chamber to the main heating chamber, a passagewaybetween said sediment and separating chambers and a sed!- ment t-rap removably connected with said sediment chamber.

2.A device of the class described, which comprises an integral assemblage, a lire chamber, a pre-heating chamber encompassing the lower part of the fire chamber, a main heating chamber arranged above said 12 pre-heating chamber and encompassing the upper part of said fire chamber, a horizontal partition between the pre-heating chamber and the main heating chamber said partition having an orifice connecting said chambers, 125 a separating chamber and a sediment chamber, aninclined partition separating the preheating and main heating chambers from said separat-ing and sediment chambers said separating and sediment chambers being ex- 15 traneous to said pre-heating and main heating chambers, there being an orifice connecting said pre-heating and sediment chambers,

an orifice connecting said sediment and said said separating and Sediment chambers, and a sediment trap removably connected with said sediment chamber.

SAMUEL V. REEVES.

Vitnesses E. C. B. REEVES, DAVID ARCHER. 

